Some writing Galician in Spain and some writing English in Ireland, poets, fiction writers, playwrights, and critics in all these genres, explore advances women have made at all stages of the
literature production process. Their topics include Irish women poets in a changing society, some notes on the functions of Galician feminist criticism, the role of the literary critic in
academia, a first-person account of women in children's literature, the city girls, women's fiction and literary criticism in Galicia, a writer's thoughts on publication and public criticism,
Irish women playwrights undervalued and overmined, on the lamentable effect of criticism on the irregular situation of Galician drama written by women, and questions of response and location in
Irish women's drama. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
